Aim: The present study aims to examine the effects of zinc deficiency on maternal and fetal outcomes during pregnancy. 
 Material-method: was carried out in a secondary care hospital between 2020 January December. Demographic data all patients, zinc, hemoglobin (Hb), hematocrit (Hct) levels at birth adverse pregnancy such as oligohydramnios, preterm delivery, preeclampsia, premature ruptur...

BACKGROUND Although vitamin D insufficiency is prevalent in the community, only a few population-based studies have measured serum 25-hydroxy-vitamin D (25OHD) levels during pregnancy and in newborns. Maternal vitamin D deficiency has been linked to pregnancy complications, as well as hypocalcaemia and rickets in the newborn. Here, the authors report third-trimester maternal and newborn-serum 2...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the influence of maternal insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) on maternal serum free beta-hCG, PAPP-A and fetal nuchal translucency (NT), thickness at 11 to 13(+6) weeks of gestation in a large cohort of women screened prospectively for chromosomal anomalies. METHODS Information on maternal IDDM status, maternal serum biochemical marker levels and fetal NT were co...

Wu, Sing-Yung, Daniel H. Polk, Wen-Sheng Huang, and Delbert A. Fisher. Fetal-to-maternal transfer of 3,38,5triiodothyronine sulfate and its metabolite in sheep. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Endocrinol. Metab. 40): E915–E919, 1999.— Earlier studies have shown that sulfoconjugation is a major pathway of thyroid hormone metabolism in fetal mammals. To assess the placental transfer of sulfoconjugates in th...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the clinical advantage of several prognostic factors for predicting preterm delivery. MATERIALS AND METHODS Eighty and six patients with a singleton pregnancy admitted to Vali-Asr hospital underwent genetic amniocentesis between the 15th and 23th weeks were included in this study. Maternal serum C-reactive protein (CRP), transvaginal sonographic measurement of cervica...

BACKGROUND Studies in older adults and animals have suggested contrasting relations between bone health and different vitamin A compounds. To our knowledge, the associations between maternal vitamin A status and offspring bone development have not previously been elucidated. OBJECTIVE We examined the associations between maternal serum retinol and β-carotene concentrations during late pregnan...

Wu, Sing-Yung, Daniel H. Polk, Wen-Sheng Huang, and Delbert A. Fisher. Fetal-to-maternal transfer of 3,38,5triiodothyronine sulfate and its metabolite in sheep. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Endocrinol. Metab. 40): E915–E919, 1999.— Earlier studies have shown that sulfoconjugation is a major pathway of thyroid hormone metabolism in fetal mammals. To assess the placental transfer of sulfoconjugates in th...

High maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) levels during pregnancy may be instrumental in reducing the subsequent risk of breast cancer. This hypothesis was tested in a nested case-control study using stored frozen sera accrued between 1959 and 1966 by the University of California at Berkeley Child Health and Development Studies (CHDS) group from a cohort of pregnant women. Cases with histolog...